HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Lake View no match for Lubbock

Chiefs still looking for first district victory

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Heading into the District 4-4A home opener against Lubbock High on Friday night, the Lake View High School boys basketball team was hoping to erase the frustrations of the first two district games.

Unfortunately for the Chiefs, their troubles continued in a 70-61 loss against the Westerners at Ben Norton Gym.

Lubbock High held a slim 32-27 advantage at the half, but Lake View wasn’t able to whittle away much at the deficit.

“I thought we had to come out and play with fire and I don’t think we did that,” Lake View head coach Robert Chaney said after his team dropped to 4-13 overall and 0-3 in district. “I think they came down there and — boom — scored right off the bat.

“We played too fast, instead of executing and being disciplined on our offense. Shots weren’t falling and we weren’t rebounding well enough to get second shots. We just weren’t patient enough offensively.”

Lake View’s Jordan Everitt made a pair of foul shots with 36.2 seconds left in the third quarter to pull the Chiefs within 45-39 heading into the final period.

A three-point play by Everitt at the 7:08 mark of the fourth made it 47-42 Lubbock High, but that was as close as the Chiefs could get the rest of the way.

Everitt finished with a game-high 23 points and he was the only Lake View player to score in double digits.

Krishawn Terry scored 19 of his team-high 22 points in the second half for Lubbock High. Dequalin McGraw and Jose Villalobos chipped in 12 and 11, respectively.

Lubbock High, a playoff team from last year that was coming off a 69-66 overtime loss to Plainview on Tuesday, improved to 1-2 in district.

Friday’s game was a drastic improvement over Tuesday’s 84-40 loss on the road against Frenship, but Lake View isn’t looking for any moral victories.

The Chiefs will try to pick up their first district win when they host Lubbock Monterey at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Chaney says the Chiefs will need a concerted overall effort to snap out of their funk.

“We’re going to have to give them a lot of repetition on what we want to do offensively and make them understand what we want going on off the screens,” Chaney said. “We didn’t execute our screening and ball screening tonight.

“We’ll do our best to correct it Monday. We’re going to give them Saturday off and we need it. We need to think about what we need to do to get better at this. We’ll be OK. I saw some progress tonight, as far as being coachable. The effort was there all the way toward the end.”